Reply #1: one of the problems was Thune and his people were intimidating Native

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Americans from voting. Daschle had filed a lawsuit on that but i'm not sure what has come out of it.

but Daschle always won because of the Native American voters and if the Republicans were successful in keeping them from voting then it's unlikely Daschle would come out ahead in voting.

another thing is Daschle has always been a huge supporter of native americans and always came through for them. but under the bush administration the republicans purposely prevented bills daschle put in to help them from passing to make it look like daschle wasn't doing anything for them. this could also result in decrease of voter turnout.

the republican party's success is all about bigotry.